Marlene Schmidt
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Fled East Germany in 1960 to live in Stuttgart and work as an electronics engineer. Soon after, she entered a beauty contest on a whim and ended up winning the title of Miss Germany. That led to being crowned Miss Universe in 1961. She married actor Ty Hardin in 1962, but the marriage only lasted 3 years. In 1969, she married Iraqi-born filmmaker Howard Avedis. Their partnership resulted in numerous drive-in hits and cult classics, including The Stepmother (1972), The Teacher (1974) and Mortuary (1983). Marlene always produced, sometimes wrote and usually appeared in supporting roles in these productions.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Breslau, Germany
Adult: No
Birthday: September 06, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
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Farewell, Lebanon
Overview: The film presents the topic of migration, cultural contrast and human alienation, through a group of young people who are forced to migrate, facing severe social pressures and having difficulty in adapting to their new environments.
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Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1968-09-09
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The Teacher
Overview: 18-year-old Sean's first summer after completing high school is much spent with 28-year-old teacher Diane, who's husband is too often motorcycle-racing instead of with her. Wacko Ralph also has "the hots" for Diane; and it doesn't help that Sean was with Ralph's younger brother, Lou, when Lou died
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-29
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The Stepmother
Overview: Returning home from a business trip, an architect assumes that a client is having an affair with his wife and murders the man. His feelings of guilt and attempts to conceal the crime lead to more complications and death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-26
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Dr. Minx
Overview: A small-town doctor (Edy Williams) becomes a suspect while probing her rich husband's mysterious death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-11-01
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The Red Plain
Overview: With Rezvan's death his nephew Betty comes to Iran from abroad to sell the lands she has inherited from him. Fahim wants the lands for himself but Bahram is preventing him. This put them to confront each other while Betty too falls in love with Bahram.
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1968-05-05
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Destiny
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Original Language: fa
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Kidnapped
Overview: A woman's sister is kidnapped on her 16th Birthday and forced into filming pornography. A policeman helps the woman rescue her teenage sister from the pornographers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-09
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The Fifth Floor
Overview: A young woman collapses on the disco dance floor of what's revealed to be strychnine poisoning. Assuming that this is an attempt at suicide, her boyfriend and doctor have her committed to the Fifth Floor, an asylum with obviously crazy inmates and a predatory orderly. The problem is, she's still sane!
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-15
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Separate Ways
Overview: A wife unhappy in her marriage begins an affair with an art student, unaware that her husband, a race driver, is also having an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-01
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Texas Detour
Overview: Three California teenagers on a road trip have their van stolen and end up stranded in a backwoods town with a sheriff who refuses to help. The trip then decide to take matters into their own hands.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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Mortuary
Overview: A young woman investigates the seemingly accidental death of her father, revealing many unsettling secrets and putting her in mortal danger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-07
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They're Playing with Fire
Overview: A married college professor decides to seduce her student, whom she hired as a handyman for her yacht. The hesitant student succumbs to his buxom professor, but their romance is interrupted by her corrupt husband and a masked murderer.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-04-01
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